Evolution of marine atmospheric boundary layer structure across the cold tongue-ITCZ complex

Journal of Climate

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 737-753

  Pyatt, Hollis E ^a   Albrecht, Bruce A ^a   Fairall, Chris ^b   Hare, J E ^b   Bond, Nicholas ^c   Minnis, Patrick ^d   Ayers, J Kirk ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e Analytical Materials and Sciences Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; CLIMATOLOGY; CLOUDS; HEAT FLUX; MARINE ENGINEERING; MOISTURE; THERMAL EFFECTS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ATMOSPHERIC BOUNDARY LAYERS (ABL); SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (SST); SURFACE FLUXES; THERMODYNAMIC STRUCTURE;

ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BOUNDARY LAYER; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); WORLD;

EID: 17044424624     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-3287.1     Document Type: Article

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